Contact
Cathy Collie-Robinson
Director/Instructor
Building 8, room 103K
919-536-7200, ext. 8057
collierobinsonc@durhamtech.edu
Plan of Study
(Courses by Semester)Early Childhood Education - Non-Transfer Associate Degree
Long Term
Course work includes child growth and development; physical/nutritional needs of children; care and guidance of children; and communication skills with families and children. Students will foster the cognitive/language, physical/motor, social/emotional, and creative development of young children.
Employment opportunities include lead teacher in a child care center, family child care provider, Level 2 child care center director, assistant teacher in a public school, teacher in a head start/early head start program, or as a before/after school provider.
The Early Childhood Associate Degree at Durham Tech is accredited by the Commission on the Accreditation of Early Childhood Higher Education Programs of the National Association for the Education of Young Children, naeyc.org.
The accreditation term runs from July 2016 through July 2023.
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First-Semester Courses
Suggested Paths
Long Term
(More than 12 months)University Transfer
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“The Early Childhood Education program will get me further along in life and it’s encouraged me to do more than I originally set out to do. My end goal is to own my own daycare center.”
—Jasmine Cradle